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Daily Capital Journal
Salem, Marion County, Oregon
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Mutilated bodies believed to be the six-man crew of the tug Jamie were found in charred wreckage at the Brazos River mouth near Galveston, Texas, on Dec. 16. The vessel disappeared over a week earlier and is thought to have caught fire at sea.
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Galveston, Tex., Dec. 16.—Several dead bodies, so mutilated by fishes and crabs that they were unrecognizable, were found today in a pile of wreckage at the mouth of the Brazos river, according to a report brought to this city by the crew of the schooner Don't Care.
The bodies are supposed to be those of the crew of the tug Jamie, which disappeared more than a week ago. The Jamie carried six men when she left this port.
According to the crew of the Don't Care, the wreckage in which the mutilated bodies were found might have been that of the Jamie. The debris was charred and stained, and it is believed the tug caught fire at sea and the men lost their lives endeavoring to run her into the mouth of the river so that they might land.
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Galveston, Tex.
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Dec. 16.
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several dead bodies, mutilated by fishes and crabs, unrecognizable; supposed to be the six men of the tug jamie's crew.
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Several dead bodies, mutilated by fishes and crabs and unrecognizable, were found today in a pile of wreckage at the mouth of the Brazos river, according to a report by the crew of the schooner Don't Care. The bodies are supposed to be those of the crew of the tug Jamie, which disappeared more than a week ago and carried six men when she left Galveston. The wreckage was charred and stained, believed to be from the Jamie which caught fire at sea, and the men lost their lives endeavoring to run her into the mouth of the river.